Strong G2348θνῄσκω
to die/be dead
- Transliteration
- thnēskō
- Pronunciation
- thnay'-sko
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A strengthened form of a simpler primary word θάνω thanō (which is used for it only in certain tenses); to die (literally or figuratively): - be dead die.
Detailed definition
θνήσκω
[in LXX chiefly for מוּת;]
to die; pf. (M, Pr., 114), to be dead: Mat.2:20, Mrk.15:44, Luk.7:12 8:49, Jhn.11:44 19:33, Act.14:19 25:19; metaphorically, of spiritual death, 1Ti.5:6 (cf. ἀπο-, συν-απο-θνήσκω).†
(AS)
[in LXX chiefly for מוּת;]
to die; pf. (M, Pr., 114), to be dead: Mat.2:20, Mrk.15:44, Luk.7:12 8:49, Jhn.11:44 19:33, Act.14:19 25:19; metaphorically, of spiritual death, 1Ti.5:6 (cf. ἀπο-, συν-απο-θνήσκω).†
(AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2348 appears in 13 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- be6
- dead6
- die1
- have1
- man1
First verses
- Matthew 2:20Saying, Arise, and take the young child and his mother, and go into the land of Israel: for they are dead which sought the young child’s life.
- Mark 15:44And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.
- Luke 7:12Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
- Luke 8:49While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue’s house, saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.
- John 11:21Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
- John 11:39Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
- John 11:41Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
- John 11:44And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
- John 12:1Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
- John 19:33But when they came to Jesus, and saw that he was dead already, they brake not his legs:
- Acts 14:19And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
- Acts 25:19But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.
- 1 Timothy 5:6But she that liveth in pleasure is dead while she liveth.
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
θνῄσκω
(with ι [Refs (“IG” 2.2477.7, 10,2494, Ἀρχ.Ἐφ.1910.73)]; θνείσκ- [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 2.4040b; [ἀποθν]ήισκειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phdr.” in “PPetr.” 1p.18 (3rd c.BC), but θνήσκω 1st c.BC: Didymus Grammaticus cited in “Etymologicum Magnum” 452.29, frequently in codices))], Aeolic dialect θναίσκω Hdn.Gr.[Refs (2.79, _Doric dialect_)]θνᾴσκω [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Sammelb.” 6754.22 (3rd c.BC))]: future θᾰνοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 85.9, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 462, etc.)]; Epic dialect infinitive -έεσθαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.12; later θνήξομαι “Anthologia Graeca” 9.354 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus), 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 5.2.22 codices:)]aorist 2 ἔθᾰνον, Epic dialect θάνον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.412, +others)]; infinitive Epic dialect and Ionic dialect θανέειν, as always in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, except 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.52, θανέμεν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.72)]: perfect τέθνηκα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.12, etc.)]; subjunctive τεθνήκω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.74)]: pluperfect ἐτεθνήκειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.70, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.48)]; 3rd.pers. plural -ήκεσαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.52)]: short forms of perfect, 3rd.pers. dual τέθνᾰτον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.19)], 1st pers. plural τέθνᾰμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 493a)], 3rd.pers. plural τεθνᾶσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.52, etc.)]; 3rd.pers. plural pluperfect ἐτέθνᾰσαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.70, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.59, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.16; _imperative_ τέθνᾰθι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.365, τεθνάτω 15.496, “IG” 12.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 933e, etc.; _optative_ τεθναίην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.98, etc.)]; infinitive τεθνάναι [ᾰ] [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 3, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1012, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 68, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92, etc., τεθνᾶναι)] uncertain reading in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 2.10, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 539)]; Epic dialect τεθνάμεναι, -άμεν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.225, 15.497, etc.)]; Aeolic dialect τεθνάκην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.15)]; participle τεθνεώς [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.120, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 476, etc., _feminine_ τεθνεῶσα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.22, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.27 (τεθνηκυῖα 6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 29, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 109), _neuter_ τεθνεός 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.112, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 32 (τεθνηκός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 71d, _plural_ τεθνεῶτα 72c))]; genitive τεθνεῶτος, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.68, etc. (once in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, _dative_ τεθνεῶτι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.331))]; poetry τεθνεότος Archel. cited in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus “Mirabilia” 89, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 7.65)]; Doric dialect τεθνᾰότα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.74)]; Epic dialect τεθνηώς (variant{-ειώς}) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.161)], -ηυῖα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.734, (κατα-) 11.141)]; genitive τεθνηῶτος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.633, etc.; also τεθνηότος 17.435, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.23, +others [τεθνεῶτι)] is trisyllable [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.331, τεθνεώτων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 272 (hexameters))]: disyllable forms are written in later Gr., nominative τεθνώς [Refs (“BCH” 18.438 (from Argilus))]; genitive singular τεθνῶτος [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“SIG” 799.13 (Cyzicus, 1st c.AD))]; dative singular τεθνῶτι [Refs (“Papers of the Amer. School” 3.334 (Pisid.))]; feminine τεθνώσῃ (and genitive plural τεθνήτων) [Refs (“Ath.Mitt.” 50.134 (from Macedonia))]; accusative plural feminine τεθνώσας [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 45.9]: from τέθνηκα)] arose future τεθνήξω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 325, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1279)] (censured as archaic by [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sol.” 7), later τεθνήξομαι 2nd c.BC(?): Diogenianus Epicureus 1.28, 3.52, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 10, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.46)]; participle τεθνηξόμενος [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 438.7.)]—The simple Verb is regularly used in early Prose in perfect and pluperfect; for present, future, and aorist the compound ἀποθνῄσκω is substituted: θνῄσκει variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.9, σάρκες θνῄσκουσι “Art.” 69, ἔθνῃσκον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47, +others, θνῃσκόντων [prev. work] 53, θνῄσκοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 72d, θνῄσκομεν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.20U.)]: aorist participle θανών, subjunctive θάνῃ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12(5).593.2,20,23 (Iulis, 5th c.BC), “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.166 (from Cyrene), 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 1649.4)]: aorist infinitive θανεῖν [Refs ([prev. work] 1418.13)]:—in present and imperfect, die, as well of natural as of violent death; in aorist and perfect, to be dead (compare τί τοὺς θανὅντας οὐκ ἐᾷς τεθνηκένα; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 12.3 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; τέθνηκ᾽ ἔγωγε πρὶν θανεῖν κακῶν ὕπο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 431), θανεῖν καὶ πότμον ἐπισπεῖν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.52, etc.)]; ζωὸς ἠὲ θανών alive or dead, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.553, compare 15.350; ἦ ἤδη τέθνηκε 4.834; ὡς ἄμεινον εἴη τεθνάναι μᾶλλον ἢ ζώειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31, compare 7.46; τεθνάναι κρεῖττον ἤ.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.65, compare 10.25; ἄξιος τεθνάναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1012, etc.)]; τεθνάτω let him be put to death, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.10.29)]; ἄτιμος τεθ. Legal cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.44)]: frequently in participle, νέκυος πέρι τεθνηῶτος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.173)]; νεκρὸν.. τεθνηῶτα a dead corpse, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.10)]; οἱ τεθνηκότες, οἱ θανόντες, the dead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 278, 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus [same place], etc.; οὔτε τεθνεῶτα οὔτε ζῶντα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.14)]; οἴχεται θανών (see. οἴχομαι); θανὼν φροῦδος (see. φροῦδος); θανόντι συνθανεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 798, “fragment” 953, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1007 (Lyric poetry))]; ὁ θανών, opposed to ὁ κτανών, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 336:)]present with perfect sense, θνῄσκουσι γάρ, for τεθνήκασι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OT” 118, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 695 (Lyric poetry), “Ba.” 1041 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]
2 used like a passive Verb, χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ Αἴαντος θανέειν to fall by his hand, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.289; θ. ὑπό τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 329c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 625a16; ἔκ τινος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.72, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1454)]; πρός τινος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 292, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 773; θεοῖς τέθνηκε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 970: frequently with _dative_ instrumenti, θ. χερί, δορί, [prev. author] “OC” 1388, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 959 (Lyric poetry); φαρμάκοισι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fk.” 464; also ἐν βρόχῳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 558)]; τεθνάναι τῷ δέει, τ. τῷ φόβῳ, with accusative, to be in mortal fear of, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.45, 19.81, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.9.4; προοίμιον σκοτεινὸν καὶ τεθνηκὸς δειλίᾳ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.34)]; θ. ἐπί τινι to die leaving one as heir, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 7.1.)]
II metaphorically, of things, perish, θνᾴσκει σιγαθὲν καλὸν ἔργον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 121; ἐσλῶν ὑπὸ χαρμάτων πῆμα θνᾴσκει.. δαμασθέν [prev. author] “O.” 2.19; λόγοι θνῄσκοντες μάτην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 846; θ. πίστις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 611; τὸ τρύβλιον τέθνηκέ μοι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 986 (Lyric poetry): in Prose, τέθνηκε τὸ τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας μισεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.289; τεθνηκός τι φθέγξασθαι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 40.54; τεθνηκὸς ὁρᾶν 4th c.AD: Callistratus Sophista “Statuarum descriptiones” 14; τὸ τεθνηκὸς ὁ λίθος ὑπεδύετο [prev. work] 2.)]
(with ι [Refs (“IG” 2.2477.7, 10,2494, Ἀρχ.Ἐφ.1910.73)]; θνείσκ- [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 2.4040b; [ἀποθν]ήισκειν 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phdr.” in “PPetr.” 1p.18 (3rd c.BC), but θνήσκω 1st c.BC: Didymus Grammaticus cited in “Etymologicum Magnum” 452.29, frequently in codices))], Aeolic dialect θναίσκω Hdn.Gr.[Refs (2.79, _Doric dialect_)]θνᾴσκω [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“Sammelb.” 6754.22 (3rd c.BC))]: future θᾰνοῦμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Simonides Lyricus 85.9, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 462, etc.)]; Epic dialect infinitive -έεσθαι[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 4.12; later θνήξομαι “Anthologia Graeca” 9.354 (1st c.AD: Leonidas Alexandrinus Epigrammaticus), 2nd c.AD: Polyaenus Historicus 5.2.22 codices:)]aorist 2 ἔθᾰνον, Epic dialect θάνον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 11.412, +others)]; infinitive Epic dialect and Ionic dialect θανέειν, as always in [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, except 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.52, θανέμεν 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.72)]: perfect τέθνηκα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.12, etc.)]; subjunctive τεθνήκω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.74)]: pluperfect ἐτεθνήκειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.70, 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 19.48)]; 3rd.pers. plural -ήκεσαν[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.52)]: short forms of perfect, 3rd.pers. dual τέθνᾰτον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.1.19)], 1st pers. plural τέθνᾰμεν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 493a)], 3rd.pers. plural τεθνᾶσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.52, etc.)]; 3rd.pers. plural pluperfect ἐτέθνᾰσαν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 5.70, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.59, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.4.16; _imperative_ τέθνᾰθι 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.365, τεθνάτω 15.496, “IG” 12.10, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Leges” 933e, etc.; _optative_ τεθναίην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.98, etc.)]; infinitive τεθνάναι [ᾰ] [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC(?): Semonides Iambographus 3, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1012, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 68, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.92, etc., τεθνᾶναι)] uncertain reading in [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Mimnermus Lyricus 2.10, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 539)]; Epic dialect τεθνάμεναι, -άμεν, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.225, 15.497, etc.)]; Aeolic dialect τεθνάκην [Refs 7th c.BC+ (7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 2.15)]; participle τεθνεώς [Refs 6th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.120, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 476, etc., _feminine_ τεθνεῶσα 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 31.22, 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 40.27 (τεθνηκυῖα 6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 29, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Orestes” 109), _neuter_ τεθνεός 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.112, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ γυναικείης φύσιος” 32 (τεθνηκός 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 71d, _plural_ τεθνεῶτα 72c))]; genitive τεθνεῶτος, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 5.68, etc. (once in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus, _dative_ τεθνεῶτι 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.331))]; poetry τεθνεότος Archel. cited in [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Antigonus Carystius Paradoxographus “Mirabilia” 89, 4th c.AD(?): Quintus Smyrnaeus Epicus 7.65)]; Doric dialect τεθνᾰότα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 10.74)]; Epic dialect τεθνηώς (variant{-ειώς}) [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.161)], -ηυῖα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.734, (κατα-) 11.141)]; genitive τεθνηῶτος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 9.633, etc.; also τεθνηότος 17.435, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 15.23, +others [τεθνεῶτι)] is trisyllable [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 19.331, τεθνεώτων 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 272 (hexameters))]: disyllable forms are written in later Gr., nominative τεθνώς [Refs (“BCH” 18.438 (from Argilus))]; genitive singular τεθνῶτος [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“SIG” 799.13 (Cyzicus, 1st c.AD))]; dative singular τεθνῶτι [Refs (“Papers of the Amer. School” 3.334 (Pisid.))]; feminine τεθνώσῃ (and genitive plural τεθνήτων) [Refs (“Ath.Mitt.” 50.134 (from Macedonia))]; accusative plural feminine τεθνώσας [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Babrius Fabularum Scriptor 45.9]: from τέθνηκα)] arose future τεθνήξω [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 325, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1279)] (censured as archaic by [Refs 2nd c.BC+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Sol.” 7), later τεθνήξομαι 2nd c.BC(?): Diogenianus Epicureus 1.28, 3.52, 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Pisc.” 10, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 2.46)]; participle τεθνηξόμενος [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Epistulae” 438.7.)]—The simple Verb is regularly used in early Prose in perfect and pluperfect; for present, future, and aorist the compound ἀποθνῄσκω is substituted: θνῄσκει variant in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “γυναικεῖα” 1.9, σάρκες θνῄσκουσι “Art.” 69, ἔθνῃσκον 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47, +others, θνῃσκόντων [prev. work] 53, θνῄσκοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 72d, θνῄσκομεν 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 1p.20U.)]: aorist participle θανών, subjunctive θάνῃ, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (“IG” 12(5).593.2,20,23 (Iulis, 5th c.BC), “Berl.Sitzb.” 1927.166 (from Cyrene), 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Herc.” 1649.4)]: aorist infinitive θανεῖν [Refs ([prev. work] 1418.13)]:—in present and imperfect, die, as well of natural as of violent death; in aorist and perfect, to be dead (compare τί τοὺς θανὅντας οὐκ ἐᾷς τεθνηκένα; [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus 12.3 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator; τέθνηκ᾽ ἔγωγε πρὶν θανεῖν κακῶν ὕπο 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 431), θανεῖν καὶ πότμον ἐπισπεῖν 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 7.52, etc.)]; ζωὸς ἠὲ θανών alive or dead, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.553, compare 15.350; ἦ ἤδη τέθνηκε 4.834; ὡς ἄμεινον εἴη τεθνάναι μᾶλλον ἢ ζώειν 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.31, compare 7.46; τεθνάναι κρεῖττον ἤ.. 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.65, compare 10.25; ἄξιος τεθνάναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1012, etc.)]; τεθνάτω let him be put to death, [Refs (Inscriptiones Graecae 12.10.29)]; ἄτιμος τεθ. Legal cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 9.44)]: frequently in participle, νέκυος πέρι τεθνηῶτος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.173)]; νεκρὸν.. τεθνηῶτα a dead corpse, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 12.10)]; οἱ τεθνηκότες, οἱ θανόντες, the dead, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 278, 5th c.BC: Eupolis Comicus [same place], etc.; οὔτε τεθνεῶτα οὔτε ζῶντα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.14)]; οἴχεται θανών (see. οἴχομαι); θανὼν φροῦδος (see. φροῦδος); θανόντι συνθανεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 798, “fragment” 953, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Supplices” 1007 (Lyric poetry))]; ὁ θανών, opposed to ὁ κτανών, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 336:)]present with perfect sense, θνῄσκουσι γάρ, for τεθνήκασι, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “OT” 118, compare 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 695 (Lyric poetry), “Ba.” 1041 (Lyric poetry), etc.)]
2 used like a passive Verb, χερσὶν ὑπ᾽ Αἴαντος θανέειν to fall by his hand, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.289; θ. ὑπό τινος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Epistulae” 329c, 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 625a16; ἔκ τινος 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 4.72, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1454)]; πρός τινος[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 292, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 773; θεοῖς τέθνηκε 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Ajax” 970: frequently with _dative_ instrumenti, θ. χερί, δορί, [prev. author] “OC” 1388, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 959 (Lyric poetry); φαρμάκοισι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fk.” 464; also ἐν βρόχῳ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 558)]; τεθνάναι τῷ δέει, τ. τῷ φόβῳ, with accusative, to be in mortal fear of, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 4.45, 19.81, compare 2nd c.AD: Arrianus Historicus “Anabasis” 7.9.4; προοίμιον σκοτεινὸν καὶ τεθνηκὸς δειλίᾳ 4th c.BC: Aeschines Orator 2.34)]; θ. ἐπί τινι to die leaving one as heir, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 7.1.)]
II metaphorically, of things, perish, θνᾴσκει σιγαθὲν καλὸν ἔργον [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “Fragmenta.” 121; ἐσλῶν ὑπὸ χαρμάτων πῆμα θνᾴσκει.. δαμασθέν [prev. author] “O.” 2.19; λόγοι θνῄσκοντες μάτην 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 846; θ. πίστις 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 611; τὸ τρύβλιον τέθνηκέ μοι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 986 (Lyric poetry): in Prose, τέθνηκε τὸ τοὺς ἀδικοῦντας μισεῖν 4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 19.289; τεθνηκός τι φθέγξασθαι 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus 40.54; τεθνηκὸς ὁρᾶν 4th c.AD: Callistratus Sophista “Statuarum descriptiones” 14; τὸ τεθνηκὸς ὁ λίθος ὑπεδύετο [prev. work] 2.)]